Military Member Discrimination: Lawyer/Experienced Landlords Advice Desired r

[Elizabeth Colegrove]

I am part of a military facebook page. One of the landlords has a tenants trying to sign a lease a 12 month lease with 8 months orders. So she asked the group and many of use said to deny them and move on! 

One of the landlords wrote the following response

The only thing I will say is stay far away from the SCRA clause because if you do not rent based on it and they find out- they can take you to court for discrimination. Because you are discriminating against the military that is protected by a law- and how do I know? We had tenants that tried to release our home for a second year- we caught wind that the wife was moving home 4 months into the lease and using SCRA to do so- so we denied the second year- we got a very legal threading letter from their lawyer that was discrimination

We all have a friend who are lawyers that can write a threatening letter. This is the first time I have heard that you cannot discriminate because there orders are less than the lease. I know you cannot discriminate because they are military and have to let them out.

Has anyone heard that you are violating the lease if you don't willing allow them to sign a long term lease when there orders are short term?